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University of California adopts system-wide open access policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postToday the University of California (UC) Academic Senate announced the adoption of a system-wide open access policy for future research articles generated by UC faculty. The articles will be made publicly available for free via UC’s eScholarship repository. According to the press release, the University of California open access policy will cover 8,000 faculty who…
CC News: The School of Open Is Back!
by elliot About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on Twitter. Top stories: Round 2 of the School of Open starts August 5! Sign up for courses on copyright for educators, open science, and much more. The first decade of CC is over; what’s next? In our new publication…
Join Team Open! CC seeks operations engineer
by elliot Uncategorized postEngineering Department employees, 1962Seattle Municipal Archives / CC BY We’re looking for an operations (DevOps) engineer to join us in creating next generation products and services that enable sharing, curating, remixing, and collaborating on open content. The operations engineer is a full-time position reporting to the director of product strategy, and is a unique role…
Autodesk invites users to remix its content
by elliot Uncategorized postThis morning, Autodesk announced that its Media & Entertainment (M&E) support and learning content for its 2014 product line is now available under Creative Commons licenses; that’s 20,000 pages of documentation, 70 videos, and 140 downloadable 3D asset files under CC BY-NC-SA and CC BY-NC-ND licenses. “Autodesk embracing Creative Commons licensing is a big win…
School of Open, Round 2: Courses open for sign-up
by Jane Park Uncategorized postMiss Boyer’s Kindergarten Class, 1917 / UA Archives | Upper Arlington History / No known copyright restrictions The School of Open is offering its second round of facilitated courses! Starting today, you can sign up for 7 courses during a two week period; sign-up closes 4 August (Sunday) and courses start on or after 5…
Saylor Foundation launches open online K-12 courses
by Cable Green Open Education postSaylor K-12 Beta by The Saylor Foundation / CC BY The Saylor Foundation recently launched a new K-12 program on Saylor.org, debuting courses for grades 6-12 in English language arts and mathematics. A team of experienced educators and staff are developing courses fully aligned to the US Common Core State Standards. Like Saylor’s college-level courses,…
Free! Music! Contest accepting submissions
by elliot Uncategorized postOnce again, our friends at Musikpiraten e.V. are hosting the annual Free! Music! Contest to find the best Creative Commons–licensed music of the year. CC is proud to serve as a partner in this year’s F!M!C. From Musikpiraten e.V.: Patron of this year’s contest is Victor Love, lead singer of the Italian cyperpunk band Dope…
The Impact of Open Textbooks at OpenStax College
by Cable Green Open Education postOpenStax College, an initiative of Connexions, the open educational resources (OER) authoring project at Rice University, is creating high-quality, peer-reviewed open textbooks. All of OpenStax College’s books, including the art and illustrations, are available under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), allowing anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the books. The first two…
New Education Highway uses OER to make education accessible in Myanmar
by Jane Park Uncategorized postICE-Youth members / NEH / CC BY-NC-ND New Education Highway (NEH) is a nonprofit project that could not exist without open educational resources (OER). Launched this year in Myanmar, NEH leverages new and existing OER to provide remote and rural communities — often with no Internet connection — with access to a quality education. NEH…
Commonly: Refreshing the Public Domain
by elliot Uncategorized postLast week, indie videogame designer Nick Liow launched the Open Game Art Bundle. It’s a simple idea: independent videogame designers contribute game assets – animations, soundtracks, character designs – and customers can pay any price they want to access them. Nick describes it as a sort of cross between Kickstarter and Humble Bundle, and like…